by jess
Andrew Wiley is an author’s agent. With the pangs and pains of a new book selling model convulsing the industry, many agents who depend on traditional publishing for their cut of the author’s take are near-panicked. Their slices of pie (the money an author makes for their stories) are dwindling. It’s not complicated. If authors [...]
by Mel
Monday was a day for the history books — if those will even exist in the future. Amazon.com, one of the nation’s largest booksellers, announced Monday that for the last three months, sales of books for its e-reader, the Kindle, outnumbered sales of hardcover books. In that time, Amazon said, it sold 143 Kindle books [...]
by Mel
Multi-published author Michael Stackpole has put books up for sale from his own store. He’s simultaneously publishing on Kindle. Crunching the numbers. The few authors who can get advances they count on, are slaves to corporate profit–of which they make a minuscule percentage. If they don’t make the publishers money, their contracts and advances will [...]
by Mel
Popular sentiment has been against an author posting their novel if they plan to sell it. Reality has made sentiment wrong. Know this about the publishing industry: 1) Traditional publishers are mostly owned by huge corporations, thus basically all they care about is money. 2) The people who run publishing are ruled by the corporate [...]
by Mel
The studies cometh. The future of e-book readers is crucial to the digital reading revolution that is happening right now. The purchase of e-book readers are driving consumers to search and buy digital reads, which are easy and cheap to format and distribute. So far, so good. Reader satisfaction is still up there with digital [...]
by Mel
A fifteen year old, Abigail Gibbs, has gotten 6.5 million reads the online fiction site, Wattpad. Talk about getting the word out! The online fiction sites are ideal for getting your fiction out there. You have to be good enough for people to pay you for your writing, and those sites have traffic that will [...]
by Mel
Amazon has its Kindle down to $189, and the Barnes & Noble Nook is $199. As e-reader competition heats up, Barnes & Noble responded Monday by cutting the price of its flagship Nook to $199 and introducing a low-cost, Wi-Fi-only version for $149. Just hours later, Amazon (AMZN, Fortune 500) hit back. It slashed the [...]
